Discrete Analysis Seminar

High-arity PAC learning

Leonardo Coregliano (University of Chicago).

MR13, CMS.

Thursday 15 January 2026, 14:00-15:00

Zangwill Club

Earth, Brain and Mental Health: Uncovering How the Environment Shapes the Mind

Gunter Schumann, Fudan University Shanghai, and Charité University Medicine, Berlin.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 16 January 2026, 16:30-18:00

Cosmology Lunch

Exploring the Universe with Line-Intensity Mapping

José Luis Bernal (Instituto de Física de Cantabria).

CMS, Pav. B, CTC Common Room (B1.19) [Potter Room].

Monday 19 January 2026, 13:00-14:00

Geometric Analysis & Partial Differential Equations seminar

Global well-posedness of the stochastic Abelian-Higgs equations in two dimensions.

Bjoern Bringmann (Princeton University).

MR13.

Monday 19 January 2026, 14:00-15:00

Algebra and Representation Theory Seminar

TBC

Nicolas Williams, University of Cambridge.

MR12.

Wednesday 21 January 2026, 16:30-17:30

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2026 I

Speaker to be confirmed.

MR5.

Wednesday 21 January 2026, 16:30-18:00

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

Modular-invariant random matrix theory and AdS3 wormholes

Felix Haehl (University of Southampton).

Potter room.

Thursday 22 January 2026, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Centre for Data-Driven Discovery (C2D3)

Computational Biology: Seminar Series - Jonathan Frazer

Jonathan Frazer, Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), Barcelona, Spain.

Department of Genetics.

Thursday 22 January 2026, 16:00-17:00

DPMMS Departmental Colloquia

Nonparametric inference under shape constraints: past, present and future

Richard Samworth (Cambridge) .

CMS MR2.

Thursday 22 January 2026, 16:00-17:00

Formalisation of mathematics with interactive theorem provers

Title to be confirmed

Rishikesh Vaishnav (ENS Paris-Saclay).

Online; live-streamed at MR14 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 22 January 2026, 17:00-18:00

Energy and Environment Group, Department of CST

Title to be confirmed

Robin Young, University of Cambridge.

Room GS15 at the William Gates Building and on Zoom: https://cl-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4361570789?pwd=Nkl2T3ZLaTZwRm05bzRTOUUxY3Q4QT09&from=addon .

Friday 23 January 2026, 13:00-14:00

Geometric Group Theory (GGT) Seminar

Subgroup mixing in Baumslag-Solitar groups

Sasha Bontemps (ENS Lyon).

MR13.

Friday 23 January 2026, 13:45-14:45

Junior Geometry Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Darragh Glynn, University of Warwick.

MR13.

Friday 23 January 2026, 16:00-17:00

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

The elephant in the room: Machine Learning directly into physical models

Professor Matthew Juniper, CUED.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 23 January 2026, 16:00-17:00

Zangwill Club

Individual differences in mathematical cognition: A Bert’s eye view

Bert De Smedt, University of Leuven.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 23 January 2026, 16:30-18:00

Cosmology Lunch

The Cosmic Neutrino Background

Douglas Scott (University of British Columbia).

CMS, Pav. B, CTC Common Room (B1.19) [Potter Room].

Monday 26 January 2026, 13:00-14:00

Quantitative Climate and Environmental Science Seminars

Overturning 'overturning paradigms': radiocarbon constraints on glacial-interglacial ocean circulation and CO2 change

Luke Skinner, Department of Plant Science, University of Cambridge.

MR3, CMS.

Monday 26 January 2026, 13:00-14:00

Technical Talks - Department of Computer Science and Technology

CodeSpeak: From Kotlin to CodeSpeak: Programming Languages and AI Coding Tools

Speaker to be confirmed.

FW26, William Gates Building.

Monday 26 January 2026, 13:05-13:55

Geometric Analysis & Partial Differential Equations seminar

Towards a Taub-Bolt to Taub-NUT via Ricci flow with surgery.

John Hughes (University of Oxford).

MR3.

Monday 26 January 2026, 14:00-15:00

DAMTP Astrophysics Seminars

TBD

Alexis Reboul-Salze (AEI).

MR14 DAMTP and online.

Monday 26 January 2026, 16:00-17:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Prof Milica Gasic (Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf).

FW26 Hybrid (In-Person + Online). Here is the Google Meet Link: https://meet.google.com/cru-hcuo-rhu.

Tuesday 27 January 2026, 12:00-13:00

Number Theory Seminar

Semi-integral points on Markoff orbifold pairs

Vladimir Mitankin (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences).

MR13.

Tuesday 27 January 2026, 14:30-15:30

Mobile and Wearable Health Seminar Series

Foundation Models for Structured Data

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/88514183232?pwd=paFmBh7F64OIKIOFoBjQu7Fut65qB6.1

Xiyuan Zhang, Amazon.

Online.

Tuesday 27 January 2026, 16:00-17:00

Institute of Theoretical Geophysics lunchtime seminar

Title to be confirmed

Zoe Goddard (Univ. Oxford).

MR12.

Wednesday 28 January 2026, 13:00-14:00

Discrete Analysis Seminar

Title tbc

Ben Green (University of Oxford).

MR4, CMS.

Wednesday 28 January 2026, 13:30-14:30

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Ultra-tough metals via high strain-hardening

Professor Thomas Pardoen, UCLouvain and WEL Research Institute.

Department of Engineering - LR4.

Wednesday 28 January 2026, 14:00-15:00

Information Theory Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Dr Yoshinari Takeishi, Kyushu University.

MR5, CMS Pavilion A.

Wednesday 28 January 2026, 14:00-15:00

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

What is HoTT?

Professor Steve Awodey - Departments of Philosophy and Mathematics, Carnegie Mellon University .

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 28 January 2026, 15:05-15:55

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Eren Firat (University of Cambridge).

Potter room.

Thursday 29 January 2026, 13:00-14:00

RSE Seminars

RO-Crate: Packaging research outputs with their metadata for reproducibility across domains

Eli Chadwick, Senior Research Software Engineer - eScience Lab, University of Manchester.

Room C, West Hub.

Thursday 29 January 2026, 13:00-14:00

CQIF Seminar

Decoherence vs diffusion: testing the quantum nature of gravity

Note starts at 2pm, earlier than usual.

Jonathan Oppenheim (UCL).

Center for Mathematical Sciences, MR2.

Thursday 29 January 2026, 14:00-15:30

Energy and Environment Group, Department of CST

Title to be confirmed

James Ball, University of Cambridge.

Room GS15 at the William Gates Building and on Zoom: https://cl-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4361570789?pwd=Nkl2T3ZLaTZwRm05bzRTOUUxY3Q4QT09&from=addon .

Friday 30 January 2026, 13:00-14:00

Junior Geometry Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

MR13.

Friday 30 January 2026, 16:00-17:00

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Title to be confirmed

Harry Durham, PhD student, CUED.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 30 January 2026, 16:00-17:00

Quantitative Climate and Environmental Science Seminars

Quantifying the human component of the Earth System

Eric Galbraith, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.

MR3, CMS.

Monday 02 February 2026, 13:00-14:00

Cosmology Lunch

Title to be confirmed

Mariana Carrillo (Imperial College).

CMS, Pav. B, CTC Common Room (B1.19) [Potter Room].

Monday 02 February 2026, 13:00-14:00

Technical Talks - Department of Computer Science and Technology

Roku: Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

FW26, William Gates Building.

Monday 02 February 2026, 13:05-13:55

Geometric Analysis & Partial Differential Equations seminar

The space-time-Grassmann measure of the Brakke flow

Myles Workman (NCTS).

MR14.

Monday 02 February 2026, 14:00-15:00

DAMTP Astrophysics Seminars

TBD

Karoline Kimmig (Milan).

MR14 DAMTP and online.

Monday 02 February 2026, 16:00-17:00

Number Theory Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Tasho Kaletha (University of Bonn).

MR13.

Tuesday 03 February 2026, 14:30-15:30

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

Connecting the False Discovery Rate to shrunk estimates

Nick W Galwey (Former Statistics Leader, Research Statistics, at GlaxoSmithKline Research and Development (Retired)).

MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge CB2 7EF.

Tuesday 03 February 2026, 19:15-21:00

Institute of Theoretical Geophysics lunchtime seminar

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

MR12.

Wednesday 04 February 2026, 13:00-14:00

Discrete Analysis Seminar

Short character sums evaluated at homogeneous polynomials

Rena Chu (University of Göttingen).

MR4, CMS.

Wednesday 04 February 2026, 13:30-14:30

Information Theory Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Dr Yoshinari Takeishi, Kyushu University.

MR5, CMS Pavilion A.

Wednesday 04 February 2026, 14:00-15:00

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

Title to be confirmed

Professor Robert Watson - Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 04 February 2026, 15:05-15:55

Differential Geometry and Topology Seminar

A 4-dimensional pseudo-Anosov homeomorphism

Bruno Martelli (Pisa).

MR13.

Wednesday 04 February 2026, 16:00-17:00

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Robin Karlsson (University of Oxford).

Potter room.

Thursday 05 February 2026, 13:00-14:00

RSE Seminars

TBC: A researcher's perspective of using good SE practices

Thomas Daggitt - British Antarctic Survey.

Room C, West Hub.

Thursday 05 February 2026, 13:00-14:00

Applied and Computational Analysis

Structure-Preserving FEEC Methods for Spectral and Pseudospectral Analysis of Dynamo Operators

Umberto Zerbinati (University of Oxford).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, MR14.

Thursday 05 February 2026, 15:00-16:00

Cambridge Centre for Data-Driven Discovery (C2D3)

Computational Biology: Seminar Series - Dr Roser Vento-Torno

Dr Roser Vento-Torno, Group Leader, Cancer Research UK, University of Cambridge.

Department of Genetics.

Thursday 05 February 2026, 16:00-17:00

Energy and Environment Group, Department of CST

PILA: Physics-Informed Low Rank Augmentation for Interpretable Earth Observation

Yihang She, University of Cambridge.

Room GS15 at the William Gates Building and on Zoom: https://cl-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4361570789?pwd=Nkl2T3ZLaTZwRm05bzRTOUUxY3Q4QT09&from=addon .

Friday 06 February 2026, 13:00-14:00

Geometric Group Theory (GGT) Seminar

The flat closing problem

Bruno Martelli (Università di Pisa).

MR13.

Friday 06 February 2026, 13:45-14:45

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Nonlinear Structural Mechanics

Dr Alberto Pirrera, University of Bristol.

CivEng Seminar Room (1-33) (Civil Engineering Building).

Friday 06 February 2026, 15:00-16:00

Junior Geometry Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

MR13.

Friday 06 February 2026, 16:00-17:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Memorization as a Feature, Not a Bug

Jing Huang (Stanford University).

ONLY ONLY. Here is the Google Meet Link: https://meet.google.com/cru-hcuo-rhu.

Friday 06 February 2026, 16:00-17:00

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Modelling tyre-belt vibrations at acoustic frequencies

Dr Will Graham, CUED.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 06 February 2026, 16:00-17:00

Zangwill Club

BBC – Brain, Body and Consciousness

Juliane Britz, University of Fribourg.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 06 February 2026, 16:30-18:00

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Complexity in the Era of AI and Data-Driven Computing

Lance Fortnow (Illinois Institute of Technology).

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, FW26.

Monday 09 February 2026, 10:00-11:00

Cosmology Lunch

Title to be confirmed

Elsa Teixeira (Montpellier U.).

CMS, Pav. B, CTC Common Room (B1.19) [Potter Room].

Monday 09 February 2026, 13:00-14:00

Quantitative Climate and Environmental Science Seminars

Atmospheric waves: gravity waves and their representation in climate models

Iman Toghraei, DAMTP, University of Cambridge.

MR3, CMS.

Monday 09 February 2026, 13:00-14:00

Technical Talks - Department of Computer Science and Technology

Ab Initio: Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

FW26, William Gates Building.

Monday 09 February 2026, 13:05-13:55

Geometric Analysis & Partial Differential Equations seminar

TBC

Serban Cicortas (Princeton University).

MR14.

Monday 09 February 2026, 14:00-15:00

DAMTP Astrophysics Seminars

TBD

Philipp Kempski.

MR14 DAMTP and online.

Monday 09 February 2026, 16:00-17:00

Number Theory Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Peter Koymans (Utrecht University).

MR14.

Tuesday 10 February 2026, 14:30-15:30

Institute of Theoretical Geophysics lunchtime seminar

Title to be confirmed

Oscar (Univ. Oxford).

MR12.

Wednesday 11 February 2026, 13:00-14:00

Discrete Analysis Seminar

Title tbc

Adam Harper (University of Warwick).

MR4, CMS.

Wednesday 11 February 2026, 13:30-14:30

Information Theory Seminar

Group Entropies: functionals on probability spaces, state space growth rates, energy, and connections to thermodynamics

Prof. Henrik Jeldtoft Jensen, Imperial College London.

MR5, CMS Pavilion A.

Wednesday 11 February 2026, 14:00-15:00

Geometry and Topology colloquium

Title to be confirmed

Gavril Farkas, HU Berlin.

MR13.

Wednesday 11 February 2026, 14:15-15:15

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

Title to be confirmed

Professor Gabriele Gradoni - Institute for Communication Systems, University of Surrey.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 11 February 2026, 15:05-15:55

Geometry and Topology colloquium

Title to be confirmed

Michael Magee (Durham).

MR13.

Wednesday 11 February 2026, 16:00-17:00

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Barak Gabai (EPFL).

Potter room.

Thursday 12 February 2026, 13:00-14:00

RSE Seminars

Making Gravity SWIFTer: GPU offloads for gravity in the SWIFT cosmology code

Sarah Johnston - Durham University.

Room C, West Hub.

Thursday 12 February 2026, 13:00-14:00

Zangwill Club

Research Ecosystems and Research Quality: 10+ years on

Marcus Munafò, University of Bath.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 13 February 2026, 12:00-13:30

Energy and Environment Group, Department of CST

Can Agentic AI Accelerate IUCN Red List Assessments?

Shane Weisz, University of Cambridge.

Room GS15 at the William Gates Building and on Zoom: https://cl-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4361570789?pwd=Nkl2T3ZLaTZwRm05bzRTOUUxY3Q4QT09&from=addon .

Friday 13 February 2026, 13:00-14:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

3D/4D static recrystallisation and grain growth behaviour in magnesium alloys

Dr Dikai Guan, University of Southampton.

Oatley 1 Meeting Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 13 February 2026, 14:00-15:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Lightweight Structures: Integrating Engineering and Architecture

Dr Joshua Schultz, Gonzaga University.

CivEng Seminar Room (1-33) (Civil Engineering Building).

Friday 13 February 2026, 15:00-16:00

Junior Geometry Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

MR13.

Friday 13 February 2026, 16:00-17:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Atticus Geiger (Goodfire) .

ONLY ONLY. Here is the Google Meet Link: https://meet.google.com/cru-hcuo-rhu.

Friday 13 February 2026, 16:00-17:00

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Technology choice for road freight electrification

Dr Parth Deshpande, CUED.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 13 February 2026, 16:00-17:00

Accelerate Lunchtime Seminar Series

TITLE: Evaluating machine learning models for prediction of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder among autistic individuals using genetic data

Niran Okewole, Department of Psychiatry.

SS03 Seminar Room, Willam Gates building (Department of Computer Science and Technology).

Monday 16 February 2026, 12:00-12:30

Accelerate Lunchtime Seminar Series

What Is the Most Dangerous Thing a Woman Can Do? Weaponised Attachment and the Invisible Abuser

Mags Lesiak, Institute of Criminology.

SS03 Seminar Room, Willam Gates building (Department of Computer Science and Technology).

Monday 16 February 2026, 12:30-13:00

Quantitative Climate and Environmental Science Seminars

How much permafrost organic carbon will be released to the atmosphere by 2100? - some geochemical perspectives

Catherine Hirst, University of Durham.

MR3, CMS.

Monday 16 February 2026, 13:00-14:00

Cosmology Lunch

Title to be confirmed

Ruth Durrer (University of Geneva).

CMS, Pav. B, CTC Common Room (B1.19) [Potter Room].

Monday 16 February 2026, 13:00-14:00

Geometric Analysis & Partial Differential Equations seminar

Alpha-unstable flows and the fast dynamo problem

Michele Coti Zelati (Imperial College).

MR3.

Monday 16 February 2026, 14:00-15:00

DAMTP Astrophysics Seminars

TBD

Valentin Christiaens [CEA (Saclay) KU Leuven (Belgium)].

MR14 DAMTP and online.

Monday 16 February 2026, 16:00-17:00

Number Theory Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Stephanie Chan (UCL).

MR13.

Tuesday 17 February 2026, 14:30-15:30

Institute of Theoretical Geophysics lunchtime seminar

Title to be confirmed

Rosie Cates (Univ. Cambridge).

MR12.

Wednesday 18 February 2026, 13:00-14:00

Information Theory Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Prof Marcus Hutter, Google DeepMind, London.

MR5, CMS Pavilion A.

Wednesday 18 February 2026, 14:00-15:00

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

Geometric Gaussian Processes

Dr Viacheslav Borovitskiy - School of Informatics Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation, University of Edinburgh .

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 18 February 2026, 15:05-15:55

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Matthew Headrick (Brandeis University).

Potter room.

Thursday 19 February 2026, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Centre for Data-Driven Discovery (C2D3)

Computational Biology: Seminar Series - Dr HaDi MaBouDi

Dr HaDi MaBouDi, University of Sheffield.

Department of Genetics.

Thursday 19 February 2026, 16:00-17:00

Energy and Environment Group, Department of CST

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

Room GS15 at the William Gates Building and on Zoom: https://cl-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4361570789?pwd=Nkl2T3ZLaTZwRm05bzRTOUUxY3Q4QT09&from=addon .

Friday 20 February 2026, 13:00-14:00

Geometric Group Theory (GGT) Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Pavel Zalesski, Brasilia.

MR13.

Friday 20 February 2026, 13:45-14:45

Junior Geometry Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

MR13.

Friday 20 February 2026, 16:00-17:00

Zangwill Club

Changing Disorders: The Psychosis–OCD Transition Under Clozapine

Emilio Fernandez-Egea, University of Cambridge.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 20 February 2026, 16:30-18:00

Quantitative Climate and Environmental Science Seminars

Considerations and counterfactuals for carbon dioxide removal by enhanced rock weathering in agricultural lands

Tom Reershemius, Newcastle University .

MR3, CMS.

Monday 23 February 2026, 13:00-14:00

Cosmology Lunch

Title to be confirmed

Ana Achúcarro (Leiden U.).

CMS, Pav. B, CTC Common Room (B1.19) [Potter Room].

Monday 23 February 2026, 13:00-14:00

Geometric Analysis & Partial Differential Equations seminar

Mixing Estimates for Sobolev and BV Vector Fields

Lucas Huysmans (MPI Leipzig).

MR3.

Monday 23 February 2026, 14:00-15:00

DAMTP Astrophysics Seminars

TBD

Prakriti Choudhury (Oxford).

MR14 DAMTP and online.

Monday 23 February 2026, 16:00-17:00

Number Theory Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Damián Gvirtz-Chen (University of Glasgow).

MR13.

Tuesday 24 February 2026, 14:30-15:30

Mobile and Wearable Health Seminar Series

AI for Future Healthcare

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/89579877801?pwd=7OZ116Hh9XwJeEy6ZDMbbYF63ViN13.1

Bjoern Eskofier, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) Munich.

Computer Lab, FW11 and Online.

Tuesday 24 February 2026, 16:00-17:00

Institute of Theoretical Geophysics lunchtime seminar

Title to be confirmed

Joe Webber (Univ. Warwick).

MR12.

Wednesday 25 February 2026, 13:00-14:00

Information Theory Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Dr Yihan Zhang, University of Bristol .

MR5, CMS Pavilion A.

Wednesday 25 February 2026, 14:00-15:00

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

The Cybersecurity Awareness Experience: A Masterclass in Social Engineering, Behavioral Psychology, and Digital Self-Defense

Paul Draper.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 25 February 2026, 15:00-16:00

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Daniel Brennan (University of Birmingham).

Potter room.

Thursday 26 February 2026, 13:00-14:00

Applied and Computational Analysis

Title to be confirmed

Felix Voigtlaender (KU Eichstätt-Ingolstadt).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, MR14.

Thursday 26 February 2026, 15:00-16:00

Zangwill Club

A new era of brain imaging and neuroethics

Claire Elwell, University College London (UCL).

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 27 February 2026, 12:00-13:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Dr Konstantinos Voudouris (UK AI Security Institute).

FW26 Hybrid (In-Person + Online). Here is the Google Meet Link: https://meet.google.com/cru-hcuo-rhu.

Friday 27 February 2026, 12:00-13:00

Energy and Environment Group, Department of CST

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

Room GS15 at the William Gates Building and on Zoom: https://cl-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4361570789?pwd=Nkl2T3ZLaTZwRm05bzRTOUUxY3Q4QT09&from=addon .

Friday 27 February 2026, 13:00-14:00

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Title to be confirmed

Niccolo Klinger, PhD student, CUED.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 27 February 2026, 16:00-17:00

Junior Geometry Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

MR13.

Friday 27 February 2026, 16:00-17:00

Quantitative Climate and Environmental Science Seminars

Title to be confirmed

David Thornally, UCL.

MR3, CMS.

Monday 02 March 2026, 13:00-14:00

Cosmology Lunch

Title to be confirmed

Diego Blas (IFAE Barcelona).

CMS, Pav. B, CTC Common Room (B1.19) [Potter Room].

Monday 02 March 2026, 13:00-14:00

Geometric Analysis & Partial Differential Equations seminar

TBC

Maciej Zworski (University of California, Berkeley).

MR13.

Monday 02 March 2026, 14:00-15:00

DAMTP Astrophysics Seminars

TBD

TBD.

MR14 DAMTP and online.

Monday 02 March 2026, 16:00-17:00

Number Theory Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Giorgio Navone (LSGNT).

MR13.

Tuesday 03 March 2026, 14:30-15:30

Institute of Theoretical Geophysics lunchtime seminar

1st year PhD talks

Jacob Cook, Joe Eales and Maggie Kou.

MR12.

Wednesday 04 March 2026, 13:00-14:00

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 04 March 2026, 15:05-15:55

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Tom Rudelius (Durham University).

Potter room.

Thursday 05 March 2026, 13:00-14:00

Mobile and Wearable Health Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Dimitris Spathis, Google.

Computer Lab, LT2 and Online.

Thursday 05 March 2026, 14:00-15:00

Applied and Computational Analysis

Title to be confirmed

Catherine Powell (University of Manchester).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, MR14.

Thursday 05 March 2026, 15:00-16:00

Cambridge Centre for Data-Driven Discovery (C2D3)

Computational Biology: Seminar Series - Dr Aleksej Zelezniak

Dr Aleksej Zelezniak, Associate Professor, Chalmers University of Technology (Sweden) and King's College London.

Department of Genetics.

Thursday 05 March 2026, 16:00-17:00

Zangwill Club

The complexity of platform power

Philipp Lorenz-Spreen, Dresden University of Technology, and Max Planck Institute for Human Development.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 06 March 2026, 12:00-13:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Mario Giulianelli (UCL).

FW26 Hybrid (In-Person + Online). Here is the Google Meet Link: https://meet.google.com/cru-hcuo-rhu.

Friday 06 March 2026, 12:00-13:00

Energy and Environment Group, Department of CST

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

Room GS15 at the William Gates Building and on Zoom: https://cl-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4361570789?pwd=Nkl2T3ZLaTZwRm05bzRTOUUxY3Q4QT09&from=addon .

Friday 06 March 2026, 13:00-14:00

Junior Geometry Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

MR13.

Friday 06 March 2026, 16:00-17:00

Quantitative Climate and Environmental Science Seminars

Antarctic ice-ocean interactions: lessons from paleo-records

Svetlana Radionovskaya, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge.

MR3, CMS.

Monday 09 March 2026, 13:00-14:00

Cosmology Lunch

Title to be confirmed

Simone Blasi (DESY).

CMS, Pav. B, CTC Common Room (B1.19) [Potter Room].

Monday 09 March 2026, 13:00-14:00

Geometric Analysis & Partial Differential Equations seminar

TBC

David Bate (Warwick).

MR13.

Monday 09 March 2026, 14:00-15:00

DAMTP Astrophysics Seminars

TBD

Hossam Aly (TU Delft).

MR14 DAMTP and online.

Monday 09 March 2026, 16:00-17:00

Mobile and Wearable Health Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Ian Tang, Meta.

Computer Lab, LT2 and Online.

Tuesday 10 March 2026, 14:00-15:00

Number Theory Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Yan Yau Cheng (University of Edinburgh).

MR13.

Tuesday 10 March 2026, 14:30-15:30

Institute of Theoretical Geophysics lunchtime seminar

Title to be confirmed

Clara Henry (BAS).

MR12.

Wednesday 11 March 2026, 13:00-14:00

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

Title to be confirmed

Dr Rika Antonova - Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 11 March 2026, 15:05-15:55

RSE Seminars

TBC: HPC, GPUs, and Julia

Mosè Giordano - UCL.

Room C, West Hub.

Thursday 12 March 2026, 13:00-14:00

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Kyungsun Lee (KIAS).

Potter room.

Thursday 12 March 2026, 13:00-14:00

Applied and Computational Analysis

Title to be confirmed

Marcus Webb (University of Manchester).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, MR14.

Thursday 12 March 2026, 15:00-16:00

Peter Whittle Lecture

Title to be confirmed

Gérard Ben Arous (Courant).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR2.

Thursday 12 March 2026, 16:30-17:30

Formalisation of mathematics with interactive theorem provers

Title to be confirmed

Christoph Benzmüller (Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg and Freie Universität Berlin).

Online; live-streamed at MR14 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 12 March 2026, 17:00-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Zhijiang Guo (HKUST (GZ) | HKUST).

ONLY ONLY. Here is the Google Meet Link: https://meet.google.com/cru-hcuo-rhu.

Friday 13 March 2026, 12:00-13:00

Energy and Environment Group, Department of CST

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

Room GS15 at the William Gates Building and on Zoom: https://cl-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4361570789?pwd=Nkl2T3ZLaTZwRm05bzRTOUUxY3Q4QT09&from=addon .

Friday 13 March 2026, 13:00-14:00

Geometric Group Theory (GGT) Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Brita Nucinkis (Royal Holloway).

MR13.

Friday 13 March 2026, 13:45-14:45

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Professor Anthony Rollett, Carnegie Mellon University .

Department of Engineering - LR4.

Friday 13 March 2026, 14:00-15:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Did 1960's structural engineers know more than 2020's structural engineers - unpicking the engineering of Cambridge's iconic Faculty of History

Eng. Simon Smith.

CivEng Seminar Room (1-33) (Civil Engineering Building).

Friday 13 March 2026, 15:00-16:00

Junior Geometry Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

MR13.

Friday 13 March 2026, 16:00-17:00

Zangwill Club

Emotions as Moral Character Trackers

Roger Giner-Sorolla, University of Kent at Canterbury.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 13 March 2026, 16:30-18:00

Quantitative Climate and Environmental Science Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Lavenia Ratnarajah, UCL.

MR3, CMS.

Monday 16 March 2026, 13:00-14:00

Cosmology Lunch

Title to be confirmed

Maciej Bilicki (Warsaw, CFT).

CMS, Pav. B, CTC Common Room (B1.19) [Potter Room].

Monday 16 March 2026, 13:00-14:00

Geometric Analysis & Partial Differential Equations seminar

TBC

Tej-eddine Ghoul (NYU Abu Dhabi).

MR13.

Monday 16 March 2026, 14:00-15:00

DAMTP Astrophysics Seminars

TBD

Dmitri Uzdensky (Oxford).

MR14 DAMTP and online.

Monday 16 March 2026, 16:00-17:00

Number Theory Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Johannes Girsch (University of Sheffield).

MR13.

Tuesday 17 March 2026, 14:30-15:30

Institute of Theoretical Geophysics lunchtime seminar

Title to be confirmed

Patrick Thomas (Univ. Cambridge).

MR12.

Wednesday 18 March 2026, 13:00-14:00

Discrete Analysis Seminar

Title tbc

Florian Richter (EPFL).

MR4, CMS.

Wednesday 18 March 2026, 13:30-14:30

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Sean Hartnoll (University of Cambridge).

Potter room.

Thursday 19 March 2026, 13:00-14:00

Applied and Computational Analysis

Title to be confirmed

Enrique Zuazua (University of Erlangen–Nuremberg).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, MR14.

Thursday 19 March 2026, 15:00-16:00

Energy and Environment Group, Department of CST

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

Room GS15 at the William Gates Building and on Zoom: https://cl-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4361570789?pwd=Nkl2T3ZLaTZwRm05bzRTOUUxY3Q4QT09&from=addon .

Friday 20 March 2026, 13:00-14:00

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Shock-Induced Pore Collapse in PMMA: Deformation Physics and Failure Mechanics

Professor Guruswami Ravichandran, Graduate Aerospace Laboratories, California Institute of Technology.

Department of Engineering - LR4.

Friday 20 March 2026, 14:00-15:00

Zangwill Club

Using neural networks to understand and enhance human learning

Prof Christopher Summerfield, University of Oxford.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 20 March 2026, 16:30-18:00

Discrete Analysis Seminar

Title tbc

Note this talk will take place in MR5.

Harald Helfgott (CNRS--Jussieu).

MR5, CMS.

Wednesday 25 March 2026, 13:30-14:30

Applied and Computational Analysis

Title to be confirmed

Simone Brugiapaglia (SISSA).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, MR14.

Thursday 26 March 2026, 15:00-16:00

Energy and Environment Group, Department of CST

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

Room GS15 at the William Gates Building and on Zoom: https://cl-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4361570789?pwd=Nkl2T3ZLaTZwRm05bzRTOUUxY3Q4QT09&from=addon .

Friday 27 March 2026, 13:00-14:00

Energy and Environment Group, Department of CST

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

Room GS15 at the William Gates Building and on Zoom: https://cl-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4361570789?pwd=Nkl2T3ZLaTZwRm05bzRTOUUxY3Q4QT09&from=addon .

Friday 03 April 2026, 13:00-14:00

Energy and Environment Group, Department of CST

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

Room GS15 at the William Gates Building and on Zoom: https://cl-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4361570789?pwd=Nkl2T3ZLaTZwRm05bzRTOUUxY3Q4QT09&from=addon .

Friday 10 April 2026, 13:00-14:00

Applied and Computational Analysis

Title to be confirmed

Michael Woodley (University of Bath).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, MR14.

Thursday 16 April 2026, 15:00-16:00

Energy and Environment Group, Department of CST

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

Room GS15 at the William Gates Building and on Zoom: https://cl-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4361570789?pwd=Nkl2T3ZLaTZwRm05bzRTOUUxY3Q4QT09&from=addon .

Friday 17 April 2026, 13:00-14:00

Applied and Computational Analysis

Title to be confirmed

Behnam Hashemi (University of Leicester).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, MR14.

Thursday 23 April 2026, 15:00-16:00

Energy and Environment Group, Department of CST

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

Room GS15 at the William Gates Building and on Zoom: https://cl-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4361570789?pwd=Nkl2T3ZLaTZwRm05bzRTOUUxY3Q4QT09&from=addon .

Friday 24 April 2026, 13:00-14:00

Mordell Lectures

Title to be confirmed

Professor Thomas Nikolaus (Universität Münster).

MR2, CMS.

Tuesday 28 April 2026, 16:00-17:00

Mordell Lectures

Title to be confirmed

Professor Thomas Nikolaus (Universität Münster).

MR2, CMS.

Tuesday 28 April 2026, 16:00-17:00

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Philine Van Vliet (LPENS, Paris).

Potter room.

Thursday 30 April 2026, 13:00-14:00

Energy and Environment Group, Department of CST

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

Room GS15 at the William Gates Building and on Zoom: https://cl-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4361570789?pwd=Nkl2T3ZLaTZwRm05bzRTOUUxY3Q4QT09&from=addon .

Friday 01 May 2026, 13:00-14:00

Geometric Group Theory (GGT) Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Anitha Thillaisundaram, Lund.

MR13.

Friday 01 May 2026, 13:45-14:45

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

Title to be confirmed

Professor Simon Moore - Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 06 May 2026, 15:05-15:55

Energy and Environment Group, Department of CST

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

Room GS15 at the William Gates Building and on Zoom: https://cl-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4361570789?pwd=Nkl2T3ZLaTZwRm05bzRTOUUxY3Q4QT09&from=addon .

Friday 08 May 2026, 13:00-14:00

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

Title to be confirmed

Dr Cristina David - School of Computer Science, University of Bristol.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 13 May 2026, 15:05-15:55

Energy and Environment Group, Department of CST

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

Room GS15 at the William Gates Building and on Zoom: https://cl-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4361570789?pwd=Nkl2T3ZLaTZwRm05bzRTOUUxY3Q4QT09&from=addon .

Friday 15 May 2026, 13:00-14:00

Mobile and Wearable Health Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Özlem Durmaz-Incel, University of Twente.

Online.

Tuesday 19 May 2026, 16:00-17:00

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

Title to be confirmed

Professor Tom Stafford - School of Psychology, Universitry of Sheffield.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 20 May 2026, 15:05-15:55

Energy and Environment Group, Department of CST

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

Room GS15 at the William Gates Building and on Zoom: https://cl-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4361570789?pwd=Nkl2T3ZLaTZwRm05bzRTOUUxY3Q4QT09&from=addon .

Friday 22 May 2026, 13:00-14:00

Energy and Environment Group, Department of CST

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

Room GS15 at the William Gates Building and on Zoom: https://cl-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4361570789?pwd=Nkl2T3ZLaTZwRm05bzRTOUUxY3Q4QT09&from=addon .

Friday 29 May 2026, 13:00-14:00

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

Title to be confirmed

Dr Hana Aliee - Cancer Research UK, University of Cambridge.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 03 June 2026, 15:05-15:55

Foundation AI

Positional encodings in LLMs

Valeria Ruscio.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Thursday 04 June 2026, 17:00-17:45

Energy and Environment Group, Department of CST

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

Room GS15 at the William Gates Building and on Zoom: https://cl-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4361570789?pwd=Nkl2T3ZLaTZwRm05bzRTOUUxY3Q4QT09&from=addon .

Friday 05 June 2026, 13:00-14:00

Energy and Environment Group, Department of CST

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

Room GS15 at the William Gates Building and on Zoom: https://cl-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4361570789?pwd=Nkl2T3ZLaTZwRm05bzRTOUUxY3Q4QT09&from=addon .

Friday 12 June 2026, 13:00-14:00

Energy and Environment Group, Department of CST

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

Room GS15 at the William Gates Building and on Zoom: https://cl-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4361570789?pwd=Nkl2T3ZLaTZwRm05bzRTOUUxY3Q4QT09&from=addon .

Friday 19 June 2026, 13:00-14:00

Energy and Environment Group, Department of CST

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

Room GS15 at the William Gates Building and on Zoom: https://cl-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4361570789?pwd=Nkl2T3ZLaTZwRm05bzRTOUUxY3Q4QT09&from=addon .

Friday 26 June 2026, 13:00-14:00

Energy and Environment Group, Department of CST

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

Room GS15 at the William Gates Building and on Zoom: https://cl-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4361570789?pwd=Nkl2T3ZLaTZwRm05bzRTOUUxY3Q4QT09&from=addon .

Friday 03 July 2026, 13:00-14:00

Energy and Environment Group, Department of CST

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

Room GS15 at the William Gates Building and on Zoom: https://cl-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4361570789?pwd=Nkl2T3ZLaTZwRm05bzRTOUUxY3Q4QT09&from=addon .

Friday 10 July 2026, 13:00-14:00

Energy and Environment Group, Department of CST

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

Room GS15 at the William Gates Building and on Zoom: https://cl-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4361570789?pwd=Nkl2T3ZLaTZwRm05bzRTOUUxY3Q4QT09&from=addon .

Friday 17 July 2026, 13:00-14:00